DEDICATION
We dedicate this book
to all who are curious about the natural world in which we live.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Principal
funding for this handbook was provided by the U.S. Department
of Commerce, Office of Coastal Zone Management and the Guam Coastal
Management Program, Bureau of Planning, Government of Guam. Addtional
funding was also provided by the University of Guam Press, University
of Guam, in order to make the handbook more inclusive of all the
shallow-water reef corals of Guam. We thank the staffs of
these government agencies for their support. Thanks also
goes to the U.S. Naval Air Station, Agana, Guam, and the pilots
Lt. Michael C. Wilkins, USNR, and Lt. Cmdr. John Dillard, USN,
for providing us helicopter support to take the aerial reef photos.
We also thank the University of Guam Marine Laboratory staff
and Dr. Roy Tsuda, Dean of the University of Guam Graduate School,
for their encouragement throughout the project. From the
Marine Laboratory staff we especially thank Dr. Lucius G. Eldredge
for his help in working out the style of the species key and for
proofreading the manuscript. A special thanks goes to Renee
Bray and Yvette San Nicolas for typing the copy-ready manuscript.